The flower is a tulip [Chu Liuxiang]

Zhang Xiaolin said a little strangely: "How do you know you can't find it? Is there any enemy who is looking for trouble for him?"

The young man smiled wryly: "His enemies are as many as his friends. However, he should not be in any danger now."

Zhang Xiaolin said: "Then why did you say you couldn't find him?"

The young man hesitated for a while before answering: "Because...for the past few days, I suddenly found that no one knows him, not even his name."

Zhang Xiaolin smiled and said, "Is your friend famous? Why haven't I heard of this name... Lu Xiaofeng, Lu Xiaofeng... What does he do?"

The young man didn't answer, but remained silent. After a long time, he whispered: "Hmm. I think I've found the wrong place."

After he finished speaking, he didn't stay any longer, as if he was going to walk past Zhang Xiaolin.But Zhang Xiaolin was still holding his hand, so he couldn't help but pull him hard.At this moment, Zhang Xiaolin felt a long and thick internal force coming from his hand, almost making him let go of his fingers.

Others naturally don't know, but Zhang Xiaolin knows in his heart that there are not many people in this world who can shake his palm away with internal force. It can be said that there are too few people, so few that he can count them with two hands.

How could such a blind young man have such deep inner strength?

Afterwards, Zhang Xiaolin also realized that the young man had no intention of competing with him, because as soon as he increased his strength, the inner strength just now disappeared.The young man also stopped following his exertion, turned his head and said, "Do you have any advice, Your Excellency?"

Although the tone of this question was still very peaceful, it already contained some irritability and annoyance that could not be concealed.On the young man's handsome face, ripples seemed to appear on the surface of the water blown by the breeze.

Zhang Xiaolin watched the change in his expression with great interest, and said with a light smile, "You're still angry."

The young man raised his voice and said, "Are you sure you want me to be angry? Yes, I am angry now. Have you fulfilled your wish?"

He originally thought that the other party would stop him from chatting endlessly, but as soon as he finished speaking, his hands loosened.

Zhang Xiaolin withdrew his hand, rubbed his index finger on the bridge of his nose and said with a smile: "I'm sorry, I just wanted to help you, but you actually have a prejudice against me. We only met for a quarter of an hour, what did I do to make you So annoying?"

The young man shook his head and sneered, "You keep saying you want to help me, but I don't even know your name."

Zhang Xiaolin was stunned, then burst out laughing, and said, "Blame me, blame me. I wanted to find out about you, but I forgot to report my family name! My surname is Zhang, Zhang Xiaolin, I'm from outside the customs, and I'm in business."

The young man listened carefully when he was speaking, but after listening, he snorted and turned his head away.Zhang Xiaolin didn't expect the young man to have such a reaction, and it was not easy to chase after standing there, so he could only shout from behind: "Hey, what did I say wrong again?"

The young man slowed down a bit, but without turning his head, he said coldly, "You are not from outside the customs."

Zhang Xiaolin was really startled, and hurried to catch up and said in a low voice, "Why do you say that? You didn't even see my face."

The young man simply stopped, and said patiently, "I'm blind, but my nose is still good. You smell of sea breeze and flowers, and you didn't notice it yourself?"

Zhang Xiaolin's hand touched his nose again.Seeing that the young man didn't leave, he smiled and said, "Actually, I am in good health, but my nose is not working well, and I can't smell anything. You caught me right. I remember taking a shower before changing clothes." Already?"

The young man's expression softened when he heard that "the nose is not working", and he smiled slightly: "The smell is very mild, and most people should not notice it. Since you have something important to do, I don't want to disturb you, so I will take my leave now." .”

Zhang Xiaolin hastily stretched out his hand to grab him again, and said repeatedly: "Don't, don't, I promised to help you find your friend, and I will definitely help. You... Are you planning to stay in this inn temporarily? Wait for me for a few minutes sky……"

The young man suddenly interrupted what Zhang Xiaolin was saying, and said calmly, "Your Excellency's real identity must be extraordinary, and I don't want to be too high."

Zhang Xiaolin said strangely: "I'm just a Jiang Hu person, why do you think I'm a very special person?"

The young man smiled peacefully like the moonlight again, and slowly said: "The flower fragrance on your body is called tulip. It was introduced to the Central Plains from overseas, and it has always been rare. If you are not a person of high status, how could you get such a precious flower?" s things?"

Zhang Xiaolin asked back: "Then your identity must be very unusual, otherwise how could you recognize this flower fragrance all at once?"

The young man smiled and said, "I just like flowers very much. No matter how rare the species are, I will try my best to get them."

Zhang Xiaolin also laughed, and deliberately whispered: "Look, people who own tulips are not necessarily nobles, they may also be flower lovers like you, or even... thieves."

The young man was startled, and couldn't help but said, "This is the first time I've seen a thief as big as your Excellency."

Seeing that he didn't believe it, Zhang Xiaolin stopped talking and changed the subject: "Do you like flowers?"

The young man immediately understood the meaning of this question, and smiled: "Many people are surprised that I can't see, but I like to grow flowers. The small building where I live is full of flowers. Because flowers are not only I appreciate it with my eyes. Every morning when I wake up, I can smell the fragrance of various flowers and feel the breath of their growth. In the quiet night, I can hear the sound of epiphyllum blooming..."

When he said this, his face gradually glowed with a strange brilliance, as if his whole body was full of the vitality of nature.Zhang Xiaolin watched from the side. Hearing his melodious voice like a clear spring, he felt joy in his heart, so he couldn't help repeating: "The sound of flowers blooming?"

The young man paused, as if awakened from a dream, sighed in a low voice, and said, "Yes. If you have the opportunity, you might as well give it a try."

Seeing that he wanted to leave again, Zhang Xiaolin didn't know whether to hold him or not, so he said helplessly, "Why don't you want to be friends with me? Can you tell me the reason directly?"

The young man pondered for a while, and finally said: "I don't like your attitude towards others."

Zhang Xiaolin felt a little baffled, thought for a while and said, "Are you talking about those idiots in Zhushamen, or that woman who took off her clothes casually?"

The young man shook his head and said, "Those people are here to protect you, but you treat them so meanly behind your back. As for that girl..."

Zhang Xiaolin hurriedly said, "She's here to trick me, don't you think I shouldn't treat her like that?"

The young man said: "I know she has plans for you, and her behavior is not noble, but since you have seen through her mind, why bother..."

Zhang Xiaolin interrupted him again, and said with a smile: "You heard very clearly, she climbed into my bed by herself, why should I refuse? I am not a gentleman, and I don't want to sit still, let alone her She also treats me as an idiot. You know, if I am really an idiot, she will be playing tricks on me instead. "

The young man nodded slowly and said, "In this regard, you really resemble my friend."

Zhang Xiaolin said: "Lu Xiaofeng?"

The young man said: "Lu Xiaofeng. He has always claimed to be very feminine and smart, so he can always take advantage of others. But sometimes he will regret it and call himself the biggest bastard in the world."

Zhang Xiaolin said: "Why did he call himself a jerk?"

The young man said: "Because he will make mistakes, and he will find that he is not as smart as he thought. Once he fails, he will become the biggest bastard in the world."

Zhang Xiaolin listened quietly, but a smile gradually appeared in his eyes.When the young man finished speaking, he stepped forward, took the young man's hand again, and said in a happy tone: "Okay, you've finished speaking, do you want to follow me now?"

The young man was surprised: "Follow you? Why should I go with you?"

Zhang Xiaolin found that he didn't mean to refuse, so he smiled more happily, supported his elbow, jumped onto the roof, and said: "Because I want you to take a look, I have never failed .”

As soon as the young man started to sneer, he felt a force coming from his arm.He almost involuntarily ran with this force, and the two of them just ran across the roof of the inn, and the roofs of one house after another.The young man felt the night wind blowing on his face, and even felt the moonlight shining down from his head.He unexpectedly found that he didn't have a trace of unhappiness, so he never stopped, just chuckled and said: "People always fail, especially people like you who have to do a lot of things."

While identifying the direction and leading him forward, Zhang Xiaolin said relaxedly, "That's even better. I just hope that you can witness that great moment in person. By the way, I haven't asked for your name yet?"

The young man burst into laughter, and then said, "My surname is Hua, and Huamanlou."

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Zhang Xiaolin looked up at the moon, then ran all the way east.Hua Manlou followed him closely.

At this time, Zhang Xiaolin had already discovered that this young man's lightness kung fu was as profound as the inner strength he felt before.Moreover, Huamanlou also said that his residence is a small building full of flowers.

The breeze is coming, and the fragrance of flowers is all over the building.

In any case, it is no ordinary person who can live in such a place and find rare tulip species.

Zhang Xiaolin even doubted whether Hua Manlou was a child of the "Murong family" who was full of martial arts, but his surname was not Murong.

Of course, surnames can be made up. In fact, people who walk the rivers and lakes have used one or two pseudonyms, like Zhang Xiaolin is now the same.

But when Hua Manlou said his name and mentioned the place where he lived, his expression was so natural that Zhang Xiaolin didn't feel that he was lying at all, and even had a vague idea that he wanted to go to his small house full of flowers. Go upstairs to have a look and listen to the sound of flowers blooming.

Although he was distracted and thinking about it all the time, Zhang Xiaolin still found the small courtyard with lights at a glance while running.

It was already midnight, and the ordinary residents had already blown out the lamps and fell into a sweet sleep, but the lights in this small courtyard were still brightly lit, and there were still a few big men patrolling the courtyard.

Zhang Xiaolin stopped and laughed in a low voice: "The style of the Tianxing Gang is exactly the same as that of the Cinnabar Sect. No wonder the two are in Shandong and the other in Anhui, and they fight endlessly."

Hua Manlou followed him and stopped. Before he could ask, he heard Zhang Xiaolin waving something and throwing something.As the thing fell into the courtyard with a loud clang, Zhang Xiaolin also shouted in a rough voice: "People in the room listen up, your people are already in my hands!"

There was a sudden commotion in the courtyard, someone was cursing and seemed to jump into the room.As soon as Zhang Xiaolin pulled Hua Manlou's hand, the two turned their heads and ran out quickly and briskly at the same time.Although there are many pursuers behind, no one can catch up with them!

Hua Manlou laughed while running, "What did you throw out? It looked like a weapon."

Zhang Xiaolin nodded and said, "It's the female assassin's lancet. The members of the Tianxing gang are used to this kind of weapon, so they knew something happened to her at a glance."

Hua Manlou seemed to have paused before saying, "Tianxing Gang?"

Before Zhang Xiaolin understood what he wanted to ask, suddenly a cold light flashed in front of his eyes, and a sharp sword stabbed him in the face!

At this moment, the two of them were tens of feet away from the Tianxing gang's courtyard, so they never thought that there would be ambushes here.This sword came so fast, accurate and ruthless that Zhang Xiaolin couldn't be surprised, he pushed Hua Manlou aside first, but he lowered himself and rolled to the other side, narrowly dodging the deadly sword.

However, as if the sword had eyes, it stabbed at his figure.Zhang Xiaolin couldn't stand up at all, so he kept changing his body shape on the roof to avoid the sword.

He dodged thirteen moves in a row before jumping out of Jian Guang's circle, and he failed to fight back with a single move.

In his life, it might be the first time he was chased so embarrassingly.He couldn't help panting, instead of looking at the person holding the sword, he looked at Huamanlou.

Hua Manlou stood not far away, smiled as if sensing his gaze, and said, "I'm blind, I can't see anything."

Zhang Xiaolin couldn't help but also let out a long laugh, his figure stretched, and he started to walk on the roofs row upon row again, dodging the long sword that followed him everywhere.But at this moment, his attitude has become calm and unrestrained, as if he is only exercising martial arts with the other party, rather than fighting for life.

He had also seen clearly that the person holding the sword was a pale man in black, with a pair of wolf-like eyes with emerald green light.While avoiding the sword, he was careful not to let the man in black get close to the end where Huamanlou was standing.

Just because the swordsmanship of the man in black was as swift as lightning and as vicious as a poisonous snake, Zhang Xiaolin considered himself to be excellent in lightness kungfu, so he still had to concentrate on dealing with it.He was afraid that Hua Manlou was not deeply involved in the world and had not enough experience in fighting the enemy, so he would suffer a disadvantage.

In the eyes of the man in black, the green light became more and more intense, and with a flick of his wrist, he stabbed 36 swords in an instant!

These 36 swords have different sword moves and directions, but each sword is fierce and fierce, as if it wants to pierce a hole in the opponent's body.If it were someone else, they might have been dazzled and killed by the sword.

But amid Zhang Xiaolin's long laughter, his figure turned around like a ghost, and every sword seemed to brush against his skirt, but it didn't touch his body at all.At the same time, he said with a smile: "The Soul Search Sword has no shadow, the Central Plains is a little red, it really deserves to be the number one fast sword in the Central Plains!"

Hua Manlou, who was standing by the side, had been quietly listening to the fight, and when he heard the name "Central Plains Is Red", he was shocked and took a step forward involuntarily.

At the same time, the man in black also suddenly stopped his sword, and the gleaming long sword stopped an inch before Zhang Xiaolin's throat.Zhang Xiaolin smiled, and also froze his body, standing face to face with him, as if he didn't see the tip of the sword that could kill him with a single blow.

Then the man in black smiled strangely, and this smile appeared on his stiff face, as if wearing a mask.He laughed coldly and hoarsely: "The handsome bandit loves ecstasy, and the moonlit night leaves a fragrance. I didn't expect to meet you here, Chu Liuxiang!"

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Let's talk about the time between Chu Liuxiang and Lu Xiaofeng.

First of all, before Lu Xiaofeng, Chu Liuxiang was also reflected in "Before and After the Decisive Battle".The following original text:

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The only way for Lu Xiaofeng to retreat is to get out over the wall.But the walls of the Forbidden City seem to be at least ten feet high, and in the whole world, no one can sneak out of it, even if Chu Liuxiang, who made a name for himself in the past, was resurrected, he would never have such ability.

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Next, let's talk about the feeling of time. The two words "previous years" and "resurrection" mean that in Lu Xiaofeng's time, the legend of Chu Liuxiang was still there, but very few people had seen it with their own eyes.This kind of feeling is like watching a Beijing opera and praising a certain actor for "the resurrection of Yasai Meizu" (of course this is impossible).A hundred years ago, I am afraid that no one would have such a feeling of "survival power". Nearly a hundred years ago, maybe people still exist.

Then compare Sun Xiaohong's tone in "The First Knife of the Storm":

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Fortunately, the girl with braids has already continued: "In the past, Yin Ji, the 'Jellyfish', was known as the best expert in the world, but Chu Liuxiang, the 'Grand Thief', was more courageous than the sky. He went straight to Shenshui Palace and fought Yin Ji alone. Hit into the water, and then from the water to mid-air, the 'Jellyfish' Yin Ji's martial arts is invincible, but in the end she was defeated by Chu Liuxiang!"

She asked with a coquettish smile, "Do you think this battle was exciting or not?"

Li Xun Huan didn't dare to say any more, nodded and smiled, "It's very exciting."

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Of course, Sun Xiaohong's sideline is storytelling. This plot may be self-created by the storyteller, but the blueprint is generally correct.I know it in detail, apart from my own writing and peeking at the ancient script, the rest of the reasons are that it is relatively close to Chu Liuxiang's era, and the legendary story is still alive.

So it feels like Li Xunhuan lived in an earlier age than Lu Xiaofeng.

(Although the historical period of "Fengyun First Sword" has nothing to do with this article, it was set by the author of Guimao in the Zhengtong period of Ming Dynasty. This will be added later.

(However, in this way, Li Xunhuan and Yun Jing ("Ping Zongxia Video Record") may be regarded as officials of the same dynasty, which is quite interesting.